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Next StopBrad Gibson, Vancouver, BC, 2:06, U.S. Premiere!

One overweight train passenger unintentionally disrupts everyone's commute. All walks of life are joined together in a gag filled series of stops and starts on route to their destination.

Not Everyone Wants to Be Your FriendMolly Schneider, Brooklyn, NY, 2:08, World Premiere!

Sometimes people just don't want to be your friend, no matter how awesome you may be. Other harsh life lessons included.

Dr. Mantis: Insect AnalystBrandon Mikolaski, 2:36

Be a fly on the wall in the office of the World’s Foremost Insect Analyst, Dr. P. Mantis, as she helps her patient, Fred, a caterpillar, deal with his identity issues. He doesn’t want to be a butterfly, he’s got a much different idea of what his true destiny should be. Dr.Mantis, Insect Analyst. She knows what’s bugging you…

This animated documentary is the story of the Velvet Underground's disastrous first public performance. While on stage for merely 20 minutes, The Velvet Underground performed three songs: 'There She Goes', 'Venus in Furs', and 'Heroin'. The Summit High School audience responded with, as a band member recalled in 1983, a 'murmur of surprise that greeted the appearance' that 'increased to a roar of disbelief as the band started to play' which ‘swelled to a mighty howl of outrage and bewilderment...' Half the audience walked out.

In this computer animated short, the fictitious space-rock duo DEATH VAN tours through a miniature world inhabited by surreal creatures that are haunted and terrorized by a menacing and mischievous entity.

Oh my dog!Marco Comandini, NY, NY, 1:29

A clumsy airport worker is busy taking out the luggage from a plane. When one of the boxes falls and gets opened by accident, the worker will be startled by what he finds inside…Based on a true story!

Upon his release from prison Walter falls back in with his old gang of hustlers. In this con within a con will he be the one left holding the bag? Mixing the anthropomorphic menagerie of humanity found in the cartoon's of the 1930's with the fatalist allegorical themes of film noir, 'Blind Mice' tell a tale of societies divisions.

A young boy attempts to join the sideshow at a traveling carnival, unaware of the dangers that lay ahead. What he discovers when he enters the fairgrounds is that the showman is hiding a macabre secret.

ScrapsKatherine Mooney, NY, NY, 3:13

Scraps is a two-and-a-half minute, 2D, hand and digitally painted animation about a Ghanaian orphan who builds robot figurines from discarded electronic waste to serve as representations of his lost family members. When one robot is under threat, he goes to great lengths to reunite it with his robot family...

Tidal WaveChristi Bertelsen, NY, NY, 2:30

Tidal Wave is a hand-drawn animated short memoir about letting go of a dream while envisioning what could have been.